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On 23 Mar 2018 14:46, "Manish Jaggi" <mjaggi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 03/21/2018 03:26 PM, Julien Grall wrote:

Hi Manish,

On 03/21/2018 09:38 AM, Manish Jaggi wrote:

On 03/21/2018 02:15 PM, Julien Grall wrote:

On 03/21/2018 04:58 AM, Manish Jaggi wrote:

Hi Julien,

On 03/20/2018 01:16 PM, Julien Grall wrote:

On 03/16/2018 11:58 AM, Manish Jaggi wrote:

This patchset is a Xen port of Marc's patchset.
arm64: KVM: Mediate access to GICv3 sysregs at EL2 [1]

The current RFC patchset is a subset of [1], as it handleing only Group1 traps
as a PoC. Most of the trap code is added in vsysreg.c. Trap handler function is kept
independent of the usual guest trap handling code.
Looking for feedback on this approach.

This cover letter does not seem to match the series. Please update it on every time you send a series.

%s/vsysreg.c/vgic-v3-sr..

Could you please review the other patches in the series, so that I can send v2.

Here the major comments for the series (included patch not reviewed):
    1) You seem to miss some patches from Linux. I would like to understand why they are not there.

if code is ported to xen, it is perfectly fine to take only relevant patches.

It is usually expected from the contributor to have some sort of explanation in the cover letter. In particular when you are based on a series from Linux.

Where I am more worried is there are patch on top in Linux, that you didn't backport. So it would be really nice to understand why those patches are not in Xen.

A non-exhaustive list:
    - KVM: arm64: Log an error if trapping a write-to-read-only GICv3 access
        - KVM: arm64: Log an error if trapping a read-from-write-only GICv3 access

For instance we are not providing any command line option to individually enable group1 grou0 traps.

I think the command line option could be useful for testing. Developer don't necessarily have a Thunder-X in hand.

    2) Strangely some commits does not match the Linux one either in order and content (I am not speaking about the changes required by Xen). For instance this is the case of patch #14 "arm64: vgic-v3: Add ICV_AP(0/1)Rn_EL1 handler". If you port commit from Linux, then you should follow the same. This help a lot for review.

Since we are not doing individually enable of group0/1, it doesnt make sense to have two set of patches for ICV_AP0 / ICV_AP1. So I merged it.

Sorry, but it does not make sense. Looking at the series you pointed. I don't see a patch just for ICV_AP0. Instead it is part of " KVM: arm64: vgic-v3: Enable trapping of Group-0 system registers". You ported that patch in Xen.

If you see this patch, you will find this one specifically for ICV_AP1
https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/pipermail/kvmarm/2017-June/026040.html

You didn't get my point... You still don't explain why you move the ICV_AP0 from "Enable trapping of Group-0 system registers" to that patch. If you take commit from Linux then don't move code between commit around unless there is a good reason.

Please try to make the review a bit easier...

Cheers,

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v1 00/15] arm64: Mediate access to GICv3 sysregs at EL2